Azerbaijan envisages an amnesty for Karabakh Armenian fighters who give up their arms although some have vowed to continue their resistance, a foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijan’s president said
The future of Karabakh and its 120,000 ethnic Armenians hangs in the balance: Azerbaijan wants to integrate the breakaway region but ethnic Armenians said the world had abandoned them to a fate which could include ethnic cleansing.
It could also change the delicate balance of power in the South Caucasus region, a patchwork of ethnicities criss-crossed with oil and gas pipelines where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran are jostling for influence. Karabakh Armenian rights would be respected as part of their integration into Azerbaijan, he said, adding that they had requested humanitarian support as well as oil and gasoline supplies. Three cargos of humanitarian help would be delivered to the region on Friday, he said.
Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, but its Christian Armenian population has held de facto independence since breaking away in a war in the 1990s as the Soviet Union collapsed. Thousands of Karabakh Armenians were still massed at the local airport where some Russian peacekeepers are based, according to pictures posted on social media.
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